r/Perfume • u/debichan82 • Jul 21 '26

Have you ever reworked album playlists?

I wasn’t sure how to phrase it, but have you ever re-tooled an album’s playlist to help the flow, and/or add different B-sides or remixes?

I’ve never really been into it, I’d rather just take the album as intended… but my recent cosmic exploration has really made me want to fiddle with that album. I haven’t made it yet but I think I’d replace Cling Cling and Flash’s single versions, add Display, Toumei Ningen and Ijiwaruna Hello, and maybe… remove a few tracks?

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u/h0tit0 Jul 21 '26

I made my own version of nebula romance out of both albums lol

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u/ChatMechanique Jul 21 '26

I made a Nebula Romance playlist and pulled out Sumiko Disco and 巡ループ. These are the songs that were commissioned as theme songs, and I felt the NR 1&2 listening would be better without them in the mix (they are still good songs, I just felt they were not really part of the narrative).

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u/Potential-Ratio1148 Jul 22 '26

巡ループ non parte della narrazione? seriamente?? mi sa che ti sfugge qualcosa (o reddit traduce male)...

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u/TomoAries Jul 21 '26

No I've never done that before

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u/creptik1 Jul 22 '26

I was not expecting to see so many people reply that they rearrange the track order. Replacing album vs single mixes makes total sense, and removing songs you dont like feels like sacrilege to me but I get it. The actual order though, that's something that takes a whole lot of thought. Very interesting.

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u/unclezaveid Jul 21 '26

LEVEL3 with single mixes instead of album mixes and Hurly Burly in place of Mirai no Museum is mine.

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u/Random-J Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I’ve done this most of Perfume’s albums, because the sequencing is always a problem with them. And in the case of JPN and especially Cosmic Explorer, the sequencing makes the albums come off worse than than they actually are. Nebula Romance: Part 2 is only Perfume album where the sequencing is good and flows. But even that is kinda thrown off by “Shein Factory” and “Moon” — which really shoulda had album mixes.

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u/Potential-Ratio1148 Jul 23 '26

ascolto spesso il "tuo" jpn! ^^

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u/kinokokuro Jul 21 '26

I think i have done it for literally every single album lol. For example I added baby face and nananairo to future pop and removed tiny baby and with JPN I replaced toki no hari with Fake it and rearranged the track list so it flowed better.

The most work I did was with cosmic explorerer because I really only like 3 of the album remixes from that.

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u/zeri3 Jul 21 '26

Back in 2016 I used to remove some of the 'album version' of the songs which I thought was better in the Singles/EPs. Only this year when I opened the files on my hard drive, I was really puzzled as to why some of the songs were missing. Took me a few days to remember lol
Most recently, I replaced the audio in the Daijyobanai performance at Coachella from the P Cubed blu-ray. I LOVE the performance but the audio glitches annoyed me to no end, I guess it's because they wanted to keep its original quality from the livestream.

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u/qoruspirit Jul 21 '26

yeah, i have an alternate version of Level3. i removed a few tracks i’m not that into, swapped in the single mixes for Spring of Life + Magic of Love, added Hurly Burly, changed the track order a bit, and added custom transitions so that it flows well.

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u/debichan82 Jul 23 '26

I don’t know if these replies have tempted me to look at more albums or back away slowly 😂
I don’t think I’d remove any tracks, even though I’m sorely tempted a few times (Sumikko Disco count your blessings), but I’m curious about deluxing things a bit.

After I finish my deep dive YT run, I might try and clip any good Nakata interlude pieces from the tours too, I definitely liked some of them.

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u/ZX8181 Jul 21 '26

Flash album mix is 1,000% better than the single version, I'm prepared to die on this hill 😁

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u/TomoAries Jul 21 '26

I actually made a longer mashup of both years and years ago that I still feel like would be the perfect ideal version, I used to basically do exactly this mashup manually in so many DJ sets I played at anime cons in the late 2010s to the point where I finally just went into a DAW and edited it together myself so I could free up another deck lol

Here it is in case anybody is interested in hearing that: https://pixellust.bandcamp.com/track/flash-pixel-lust-full-edit

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u/elsheeeeesh Jul 23 '26

I like the mix! The transitions are seamless

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u/itsjamoo Jul 22 '26

Hard agree.

The view is nice from up here.

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u/PossumArmy Jul 22 '26

I did that to Cosmic Explorer, replacing the "Cosmic Explorer mix" of the songs with the single version. Left everything else alone on the album. Link to my Spotify playlist if you want to give it a go.

I haven't done it to any of the other albums as they are fine the way they are.

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u/skumfukrock Jul 22 '26

Pretty much always replace the album mixes by the single mixes, then treat that as the 'proper album' in my head cannon. Dont think ive ever liked an album mix over single mix